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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Madison Pacific Properties we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of our site.

Madison Pacific Properties may operate several websites. It is Madison Pacific Properties’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Madison Pacific Properties collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Madison Pacific Properties’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Madison Pacific Properties’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Madison Pacific Properties may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Madison Pacific Properties also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Madison Pacific Properties only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Madison Pacific Properties’ websites choose to interact with Madison Pacific Properties in ways that require Madison Pacific Properties to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Madison Pacific Properties gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. For those who wish to receive Madison Pacific Properties updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Madison Pacific Properties collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Madison Pacific Properties. Madison Pacific Properties does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Madison Pacific Properties may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Madison Pacific Properties may monitor the most popular pages on the MadisonPacific.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Madison Pacific Properties may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Madison Pacific Properties does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Madison Pacific Properties discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Madison Pacific Properties’ behalf or to provide services available at Madison Pacific Properties’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Madison Pacific Properties’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Madison Pacific Properties will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, Madison Pacific Properties discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request, or whenMadison Pacific Properties believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Madison Pacific Properties, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Madison Pacific Properties website and have supplied your email address, Madison Pacific Properties may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Madison Pacific Properties and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Madison Pacific Properties takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Madison Pacific Properties uses cookies to help Madison Pacific Properties identify and track visitors, their usage of the Madison Pacific Properties website, and their website access preferences. Madison Pacific Properties visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Madison Pacific Properties’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Madison Pacific Properties’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Madison Pacific Properties, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Madison Pacific Properties goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Madison Pacific Properties may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Madison Pacific Properties and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Madison Pacific Properties may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Madison Pacific Properties’ sole discretion. Madison Pacific Properties encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.